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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

For day two of our CW "Virtual" Tour we'll be virtually visiting Serious Eats. This food blog has something for everyone, whether you're a seasoned foodie (heh, "seasoned") or a bumbling incompetent in the kitchen like myself. So in honor of the occasion, here are some of the least appetizing food cakes I could find. Yeah. You're welcome, foodies.

Let's kick things off with a zesty selection of grilling poo, shall we?

Bam! There's nothing quite like charbroiled poo patties, is there?

"Abort! Abort! Those aren't sausages!!"

And speaking of flaming piles of...er, flames...how about some Smores?

Am I the only one who has a serious problem with candies still in the wrapper when they're put on a cake? I mean, the wrapper isn't edible (and I want everything to be edible on my cakes because once I dig in, I don't stop to ask questions), and that means you have to pick it up, and take the wrapper off in order to eat it. After it's been sitting in icing. So, you inevitably get icing all over your fingers, at which point, you might as well just let the fork and knife sit where they are and eat the cake with your hands because they already have cake and icing all over them. I'm sure everyone would have been able to figure out that those are pieces of chocolate, and even Hershey's chocolate on that "s'mores in ketchup" cake even if the chocolates didn't have the wrapper on.

Just want to congratulate you for your article in the Toronto Star this morning. Didn't have your witticism, but it was great to some of you come this far north.

As for the cakes today. It is beyond me why you would want to make a cake look like a BBQ. If the person likes BBQ that much . . . just BBQ. Seriously leave the imitation cakes to, pregnant bellies and fish and oh the list, the list is endless. Ah well with out the BBQ'd fish bellies how would we wreck watchers do every morning. Keep em coming Jenn.

OMG......... the taco cake. I was totally stuck on the fact that the wrapper was actually affixed to the top of the cake when my hubby walked up behind me and stated something very similar to April's thoughts! LOL YIKES!

Aside from the not-so-subtle taco thing that others have mentioned, wtf was the decorator doing when they put the fondant on? Look at the bottom edge, or rather, lack thereof. I've seen little kids do a better job. That looks like a total lack of concern, which might be why the rest of the cake is so wrecky as well.

Of course, OF COURSE the groom's taco cake is supposed to look like a "pink taco". duh. He's one of those high class guys--his friends will all stand around while he cuts the cake and say, "yep, yer gonna git sum tonite", wink wink. Let us hope he's still 17 yrs. old, which would somewhat explain his appalling selection of the theme.

THat cake is a lovely display of bad taste wreckiness, as well as bad execution, poor health of the uh, model, really, all it lacks is a spelling error and some directions spelled out like "put in right in the middle". LOL. One of the best ever. Lily

Hey Jen! I was flipping through the paper this morning, when I see... BAM! An article on Cake Wrecks! Front page of the Entertainment section of the Toronto Star! Congrats on making it to the newsstands, it was a pleasure to see my favorite blog on my morning paper!

Oh thank goodness, I was so worried I was the only one who saw something perverted in that grooms cake the second that I looked at it. I actually had to convince myself it was a taco, and not a.. uh... yeah. Taco. *wink wink nudge nudge* Eh? EH??

That last cake reminds me of Apu picking lint and old Band-Aids off an ancient hot dog before putting it back on the rollers. Appropriately enough, it was part of a musical number about the benefits of doing a half-assed job.

The grill with the two "sausages" made me laugh so hard...I am literally wiping the tears from my cheeks. ABORT! That was so hilarious! I almost peed myself. My first time checking out this site and I will be a repeat visitor. Awesome job and creating some laughs.

I that "red dye" is NOT DYE. If you look carefully at the edges of the cake, you can see that the red color fades away to right. If you zoom in, you discover this is caused by the fact that the "red dye" is red sprinkles.

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